Somali Pirates Falling on Hard Times

How the mighty have fallen.

Somali pirates spent several years terrorizing the seas.  They made millions of dollars from their kidnappings and ransoms.  They lived in wealth and splendor that most Hollywood celebrities would envy.

But now, international military efforts have increased, and most cargo ships have armed guards.  The kidnappings aren’t as easy.  In 2010, Somali pirates seized 47 vessels.  So far this year they’ve taken five.  (Not that that’s any consolation to the people on those five ships.)

The pirate leaders’ armies of bodyguards and thousand-dollar-a-night prostitutes — Gone.  Most of the pirates’ luxurious villas are deserted and decaying.  Their former owners are currently living in tiny unfurnished rooms, trying to hide from debt collectors.

Poetic, no?

And now, if there is a god — if Karma really is a bitch — maybe these other pirates will reap what they’ve sown.

The Monday Hodgepodge

Arizona’s new immigration law is so bad — how bad is it? — it’s sooo bad, even Tom “Kill All The Mud Races” Tancredo is leery of it.

The former Colorado senator, who never met a swarthy furriner he didn’t hate, is worried about the police being able to stop anybody for any reason. He said:

“I do not want people here, there in Arizona, pulled over because you look like you should be pulled over.”

And speaking of people getting pulled over because of how they look, here’s a little irony: One of the Far Right’s biggest heroes has a foreign name and a dark complexion.

This article shows his picture. And yes of course he’s railing against immigrants and poor people. Does he ever do anything else?

And WTF kind of name is Andre Bauer??? Well, which is he, a frog or a kraut? Why couldn’t the people of South Carolina elect an American to the position of Lt. Governor? Anyway, look at his picture and try to guess how far past the Arizona state line he’d get before It Happened: “Get out of the car, Wetback! What country were you born in? Show us your papersss!!!”

Did you ever have the pleasure of watching a brutal bloody fight between two people you hate? Check this out — Somali Islamic terrorists versus Somali pirates. Come on, stomp that motherfucker! Fuck him where he breathes!